robo

RoboStrategy disclosed on platform X that it led a $200 million Series C financing for the robotics company Standard Bots, with a post-investment valuation of $1 billion. RoboStrategy stated that industrial robotic arms were invented in the United States, but the U.S. has lost its dominance in this industry, and the existing product architecture has been frozen since the 1980s, making it difficult to adapt to AI real-time control and variable scenarios.Standard Bots has redesigned the robotic arm from scratch, optimizing each component for AI, achieving joint-level torque sensing, 2 kHz real-time feedback closed-loop, and ease of teaching for workers to complete in one day, while utilizing a domestic supply chain. Its product line includes Spark, Core, Thor, and Bolt dual-arm robots (in testing phase), with Thor having a payload of 30 kg and a working radius of 2 meters. Compared to FANUC CRX and UR10e, Core achieves a higher payload and tighter repeatability accuracy at a lower price. The company's goal is to capture 10% of new industrial robot deployments in the U.S. within a year, with plans to achieve full-process American manufacturing from metal raw materials to robots by 2027.

According to Ventureburn, AI robotics company Enigma has completed a $71 million seed round financing, co-led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Conviction Partners and individual investors in the AI field such as OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, xAI, Cognition, and Wiz.The company was founded 11 months ago, and this round is one of the largest seed rounds in the physical AI sector. The funds will be used to expand the research and engineering team, enhance computing infrastructure, and increase real-world deployments. Enigma has developed over 100 self-developed robotic systems, operating in California and Israel, and has opened remote interaction to collect training data. The company believes that the biggest barrier to the widespread adoption of robots is the way humans interact with them, and its platform adopts a hardware-agnostic strategy that can adapt to robotic devices from different manufacturers.

According to The Block, Physical AI data engine company Axis Robotics has completed a $12 million seed round of financing, led by Hack VC, with participation from Nomad Capital, Pi Network Ventures, 10K Ventures, and others.Axis plans to build a large-scale "human-in-the-loop" global data engine to address the scarcity of training data for robots, difficulties in generalization, and compatibility issues with different hardware. Its platform covers task generation, simulation remote operation, mobile Ego data collection, and automated cleaning and labeling pipelines. Currently, it has over 100,000 active data contributors, generating approximately 1,200 hours of simulation data and 20,000 hours of real-world scenario data each month, and has established commercial partnerships with several hardware and industrial clients, including Booster Robotics and Geely Auto.

KB Financial Group announced the establishment of the "KB National Growth Unicorn Scale-up Fund," with a scale of 150 billion Korean won (approximately 108 million USD), fully funded by the group's subsidiaries' own capital, and managed by the KB Securities PE Growth Investment Division. The fund will focus on investing in companies in fields such as AI, semiconductors, secondary batteries, aerospace, mobile transportation, robotics, and biotechnology, aiming to cultivate unicorn companies in cutting-edge strategic industries.This decision was finalized at the "4th Productive Financial Consultation Meeting" held on July 24. KB Financial also formulated a financial support plan in line with the government's "three major super projects," covering support for semiconductors, power infrastructure investment, and physical AI companies and AI data centers. KB Financial plans to focus on discovering local innovative small and medium-sized enterprises through the CIB center and promote a shift in corporate evaluation culture from traditional financial statements and historical performance orientation to a evaluation system based on technological strength and future growth potential.

Lighter tweeted that a trading bot malfunctioned on July 25, briefly affecting the HYPE and ZEC markets. During the incident, the HYPE price reached $60.96 and $56.31 within half a minute, while the external trading price was around $58 at the same time, and then the price recovered within a minute. There were no forced liquidations across the market, and losses were limited to the accounts that triggered the issue.The bot was launched with $500,000 in funds and traded $27 million back and forth on HYPE within 5 minutes, accounting for 74.2% of the market trading volume; it generated $220.8 million in order volume on ZEC, accounting for 86.7%, causing the ZEC price to briefly rise to $521. Lighter stated that the risk engine marked positions with fair prices to resist manipulation and rejected 801 orders when margin was insufficient. Ultimately, the bot incurred a loss of about $482,000, all from its own funds. Lighter's liquidity pool (LLP) earned about $143,000, and 40 independent accounts each made over $1,000 in profit.

According to informed sources, SoftBank Group is considering acquiring Gravis Robotics AG, as SoftBank is targeting the artificial intelligence sector that supports robotics technology. SoftBank plans to make a significant investment in this European startup and incorporate it into its newly established company, Roze.SoftBank may complete the transaction in phases, achieving this through gradual acquisition of existing shares and injecting new funds. Informed sources say that this deal could ultimately value the Zurich-based Gravis company at over $500 million. They stated that no final decision has yet been made regarding the scale or structure of the transaction.

According to Gelonghui, Atoms, a robotics company founded by Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick, has completed a $1.7 billion financing round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with Ben Horowitz joining the board. The equity investors in this round include Bain Capital, Fifth Wall, Chemistry, A*, K5 Global, Abstract, SV Angel, Alpha Square Group, and Uber.Horowitz focused the logic of this investment on specialized robots rather than humanoid robots. He pointed out that in heavy industry, specialized robots are much more suitable for completing most tasks than humanoid robots.

Artificial intelligence company World Labs, founded by Fei-Fei Li, announced the acquisition of robotics company SceniX, with the specific acquisition amount not disclosed. World Labs stated that robots are an important carrier for the implementation of spatial intelligence in the real world, and future robotic systems need to possess environmental perception, spatial understanding, behavioral reasoning, and reliable execution capabilities.After this acquisition, SceniX will be integrated into the World Labs team, and both parties plan to combine their respective strengths in spatial modeling and robotics technology to promote more application scenarios.

According to Gate market data, Tesla's stock price fell by 5% in after-hours trading. Musk stated that expanding the production capacity of the Optimus robot will face difficulties.

According to Forbes, humanoid robot startup Humanoid announced the completion of a $152 million Series A funding round, with a post-investment valuation of $1.35 billion, becoming the first unicorn company in Europe focused on the humanoid robotics field.This round of financing was led by Prime Movers Lab, with participation from German industrial giants Schaeffler and Bosch, Taiwan's Fubon Financial Holdings venture capital, and LVMH Arnault family's investment firm Aglaé Ventures. After this financing, Humanoid's total funding amount has reached $270 million.

According to the official announcement, the Bitget trading bot now supports U.S. stock tokens (rToken) for smart positions and has simultaneously launched several recommended portfolios including the top ten U.S. stocks Mag 10, the White-haired Stock God portfolio, and the Elon Musk concept. This allows users to copy positions with one click and automatically manage their holdings.Users can enter the "Trading Bot" and select "Smart Positions," choose the desired portfolio to create, input the investment amount, and complete the position creation. They can also manually create their own configurations for supported stocks rToken and cryptocurrencies, set target ratios for each currency and rebalancing conditions, and complete the creation. App users can upgrade to the latest version to experience this feature.It is reported that the rToken, identified by the letter r + stock code (for example, Nvidia is rNVDA), is issued by Reality, a licensed RWA protocol under Bitget, and is directly connected to global liquidity pools such as Nasdaq and NYSE through collaboration with the compliant broker Alpaca. Its features include: 1:1 reserves of underlying assets managed by a licensed custodian, stock dividends distributed in token form at a 1:1 ratio, support for corporate actions (such as stock splits), and positions can serve as joint collateral for unified accounts and U-based contracts, allowing users to flexibly manage funds while holding global stock assets.

According to Bloomberg, the humanoid robot startup Walden Robotics, spun off from Toyota's robotics research lab, has completed approximately $300 million in seed funding, with a valuation of $1.1 billion. This round was co-led by Deviation Capital and Toyota Motor Corporation, with participation from Toyota's strategic investment and early-stage venture capital division, as well as Nvidia, Boeing, AE Ventures, Samsung Ventures, and CoreWeave Ventures.Walden is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, producing self-developed hardware, software, and AI models, focusing on deploying general-purpose robots in manufacturing and logistics facilities to handle tasks considered burdensome by workers. Co-founder Russ Tedrake revealed that they have begun selling humanoid robots to clients across multiple industries, including a pilot project at a North American Toyota plant, where the robots perform repetitive tasks such as loading and unloading automotive parts and cleaning equipment. Tedrake previously served as an executive at the Toyota Research Institute and teaches robotics courses at MIT.

According to official news, the closed-end investment company RoboStrategy, focused on robotics and physical AI, announced the completion of a series of private equity issuances, issuing 450,684 shares at a weighted average price of approximately $35.5, raising about $16 million.Among them, RoboStrategy CEO Andrew Kang subscribed to 272,405 shares at a price of $36.71 million, investing approximately $10 million.

According to Techcrunch, Nous Research, the developer of the open-source agent Hermes, is finalizing a new round of financing, expected to be led by Robot Ventures, with participation from institutions like USV. The company's valuation is approximately $1.5 billion. Sources indicate that the scale of this round of financing is at least $75 million.Its core product, Hermes, as an open-source local AI agent, has accumulated 214,000 stars and nearly 40,000 forks on the GitHub platform. It supports users in deploying and running locally on personal computers and virtual servers, with autonomous execution capabilities such as web retrieval and code generation.

According to official news, the Gate stock derivatives section will launch on July 14 at 14:00 (UTC+8) with the debut of BOT (robot strategy closed-end fund), INTW (2x long Intel daily leveraged ETF), SNXX (2x long Sandisk daily leveraged ETF), XBI (State Street S&P Biotechnology ETF), and APP (Applovin) perpetual contract trading (settled in USDT), supporting 1-20x leverage.

According to the Economic Times, the physical AI startup Mowito has completed a $3 million Pre-Seed round of financing, led by Version One Ventures, with participation from All In Capital, Unisol, and iSeed. AI researcher Soumith Chintala and founders from Foundry Robotics, Coformer.ai, Better Capital, and others participated as angel investors.Mowito was founded in 2024 by Puru Rastogi, Adityanag Nagesh, and Safar V. It builds AI foundational models for industrial robotic arms, addressing the bottleneck of software programming in manufacturing automation by allowing robots to learn tasks through human demonstration rather than explicit programming—engineers do not need to rewrite control code when product lines change. Mowito's software can run on standard, unmodified industrial robots, serving automotive and electronics manufacturing clients. This round of financing will be used for expansion into the U.S. market, expanding engineering and marketing teams, and deepening deployment in manufacturing sites.

According to a report by China News Service, the International Data Corporation (IDC) released a global commercial service robot tracking report on July 7. The data shows that by 2025, the global commercial service robot market size will reach $1.37 billion, a year-on-year growth of 35.7%, with an annual shipment volume of approximately 155,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 44.1%. Among them, Chinese manufacturers, leveraging supply chain and AI technology innovation advantages, continue to lead the global market, accounting for over 90% of the total share among the top ten manufacturers in global shipments.In terms of subcategories, commercial cleaning robots are growing the fastest, with an estimated shipment volume of about 58,000 units (+83.8%) in 2025, and a market size exceeding $760 million; delivery robots remain the largest submarket in terms of shipment volume, with annual shipments of about 84,000 units (+30.2%). In terms of regional distribution, the Chinese market continues to hold the global lead with approximately 38% market share, while the Latin American region has become the fastest-growing regional market with a year-on-year shipment growth rate of 84.4%. IDC predicts that by 2030, global commercial service robot shipments will reach 454,000 units, with the market size expected to grow to $3.17 billion.

On July 1, according to WEEX TradFi data, the recent performance of the US stock technology sector has been mixed, with funds continuously focusing on Physical AI, robotics, and related supply chain directions that have actual implementation expectations. Among them, AMD rose about 7.7% in 24 hours, Symbotic (SYM) rose over 6.6%, Texas Instruments (TXN) rose about 4.4%, NVIDIA (NVDA) rose about 2.6%, Tesla (TSLA) rose about 2.1%, and Analog Devices (ADI) rose about 1.4%.WEEX Labs believes that market funds are shifting from a single computing power narrative to core links in the Physical AI supply chain with implementation expectations, including Tesla's Optimus production line transformation and NVIDIA's Physical AI Day, which continuously strengthen expectations for hardware and software collaboration, leading to increased attention in related sectors.